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#!/usr/bin/env python3 import sys from num2words import num2words def spell_number(my_number): my_number = my_number.strip() if not my_number: return “” result = num2words( float(my_number), to=”currency”, currency=”USD” ) result = result.replace(“,”, “”) result = result.replace(” and “, ” “) result = result.replace(“-“, ” … Continue reading →

Report statistics of uptime ac -dp –print-year  

#!/usr/bin/python3 import sys; beg,end=int(sys.argv[1]),int(sys.argv[2]);[print(f”{n} is “+(“perfect” if (s:=sum(x for x in range(1,1+n//2) if n%x==0))==n else “abundant” if s>n else “deficient”)) for n in range(beg,end+1)]

abcde for Linux in the off-hand chance you still need to rip a CD.  

Find all palindromic words in a file #!/usr/bin/python3 def words(fileobj): for line in fileobj: for word in line.split(): yield word with open(“words.txt”) as wordfile: wordgen = words(wordfile) for word in wordgen: if word == word[::-1]: print(word, end=” “) print()

Python code to generate 26 page headers for a chapter of my magnum opus: #!/usr/bin/env python3 import sys import string letter = sys.argv[1].upper() for second in string.ascii_uppercase: print(f'<span style=”font-size: 1.7em; font-weight: bold;”>{letter}{second}</span>’)

Python script to detect the width of your text and put a box around it #!/usr/bin/env python3 import sys lines = [line.rstrip(“\n”) for line in sys.stdin] if not lines: sys.exit() width = len(lines[0]) for n, line in enumerate(lines, 1): if … Continue reading →

Skyglobe for MSDOS, still the best astronomy software 35 years later… Before we wasted time on Windows solitaire we wasted time on MSDOS solitaire.

while :;do echo $LINES $COLUMNS $((RANDOM%COLUMNS)) $(printf ‘%b’ “\\u$(printf ‘%04x’ $((RANDOM%500)))”);sleep .05;done|gawk ‘{a[$3]=0;for(x in a){o=a[x];a[x]++;printf “\033[%s;%sH\033[2;32m%s”,o,x,$4;printf “\033[%s;%sH\033[1;37m%s\033[0;0H”,a[x],x,$4;if(a[x]>=$1)a[x]=0}}’